US Patent Issued on March 18 for "System and method for decrypting encrypted secret data items without master password" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,992, issued on March 18.

"System and method for decrypting encrypted secret data items without master password" was invented by Wei Li (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved password manager runs on an electronic communication device. It derives an encryption key from a user master password and generates a master encryption key. The manager uses the encryption key to twice encrypt the master encryption key. It uses the mater encryption key to encrypt secret data items. The manager generates a second tier encryption key and uses it to twice encrypt the master encryption key. The encrypted data is stored. The sec...